The Business of Art

The African American Arts Alliance and Lawyers for the Creative Arts are proud to collaborate and introduce a new workshop series for artist entrepreneurs. Regardless of your artistic discipline, all artists are entrepreneurs and need the tools and resources tohelp advance their art practice. The Business of Art seminars for artist entrepreneurs reflects both of our deep commitment to the arts community to provide professional development that will help build capacity and create wealth and economic opportunity.

The BUSINESS OF ART Essential business-building workshops will focus on:

Designing your business structure
Marketing your work
Legal issues
Money Management

Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA) is the only pro bono legal service organization in Illinois that has expertise in all areas of the arts. For 48 years, LCA has assisted thousands of artists and arts organizations of all kinds with their legal issues through its legal referral bank and education program, LawSmarts.